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September 1, 2026, 2:45 PM
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Anthropic:
Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards  —  We're introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1.  They're the world's most advanced models for coding and knowledge work …
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work  —  Anthropic PBC is releasing a new version of its powerful Fable artificial intelligence model that it says is better at coding and science tasks …
More: Claude and VentureBeat.  Forums: Hacker News
Kalley Huang / New York Times:
John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO and Tim Cook becomes executive chair; sources say Laura Legros, an Apple hardware VP who retired in 2022, has rejoined Apple  —  Big technology and management changes are greeting John Ternus, whose long-serving predecessor, Tim Cook, will stay on as executive chair.
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Under Tim Cook, Apple's market cap grew from less than $350B in 2011 to $4.6T, revenue went from $157B in FY 2012 to ~$477B in FY 2026, and shares rose 2,258%
Deepa Seetharaman / Reuters:
Filing: OpenAI denies Apple's allegations of trade secret theft, saying “this dispute is a mess of Apple's own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else”  —  OpenAI denied Apple's allegations of trade secret theft on Monday, saying the iPhone maker failed to show …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Filing: Apple claims a former iPhone engineer used a confidential Apple circuit schematic in his work at OpenAI, says “evidence is being destroyed”, and more
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Nvidia says it will launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March  —  DLSS 5 is almost here, but only for NBA 2K27, and only officially for 50-series RTX GPUs.
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents  —  As the company opens its platform to AI assistants, Chief Executive Officer Tom Conrad wants to reposition Sonos as something bigger than a speaker brand.
Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View:
PSI, which aims to use AI “to industrialize the discovery of new physics” including cracking interstellar travel, emerges from stealth with a $58M seed  —  AI is best known for transforming coding.  Now, one startup is making the case for physics.
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Dyson unveils the $499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images  —  Dyson Ltd. introduced a $499 toothbrush that uses artificial intelligence and a built-in camera to give real-time feedback …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Microsoft confirms it has restored core Exchange Online functionality, including mail flow and search, after a day-long outage from around 11:30AM ET on Monday  —  Snow day?  Microsoft on Monday confirmed a widespread, multi-hour outage affecting Outlook users, leading to email delays and failures …
Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters:
Starman Optical agrees to acquire GoPro for $285M in cash, a 29.5% premium to GPRO's last close; GoPro hit a $4B market cap on its first trading day in 2014  —  Action camera maker GoPro (GPRO.O) said on Tuesday it is being acquired by Starman Optical in an all-cash deal valued at $285 million.
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic has signed a $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda; Nvidia will hold the lease on, and supply chips to, a Hut 8-built Texas data center  —  Nvidia will supply chips to Texas data center and hold the lease, another example of the company using its financial might to boost a customer
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Waymo starts offering driverless rides to customers in San Diego, Tampa, Florida, and Denver; Amazon's Zoox says it will start testing in Houston and San Diego  —  Alphabet's Waymo is expanding its commercial service, and Amazon's Zoox said it plans to test in more U.S. cities, as the nascent robotaxi market gains momentum.
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Aslan, which offers AI agents for the FBI and wider intelligence community that can pose as analysts and undercover spies in online forums, raised $20.8M  —  Aslan, a startup building AI agents that act as operatives in national security missions, is publicly launching today after raising $20.8 million …
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:
Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt  —  Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform for Latino immigrants, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $200 million …

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Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
How Democrats' midterm wins may affect Hollywood and media: uncertainty over federal tax incentive bill, greater FCC oversight, restoring CPB funding, and more

More News

CJ Haddad / CNBC:
AI power infrastructure company SB Energy, which is backed by SoftBank, OpenAI, and Nvidia, files for an IPO, and says it is “substantially dependent” on OpenAI
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute, which splits a task between a frontier, cloud model and a local LLM to handle sensitive info, for all users of its Mac app
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Roku unveils its first self-branded OLED smart TVs starting at $999, in 55" and 65" 120Hz models, and $1,299 for a 144Hz model, sold exclusively via Amazon

Earlier Picks

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google raises the price of its Google TV Streamer by $50 to $150 in the US, as well as for “select” Nest cameras and doorbells, citing “rising component costs”
Anthropic:
Anthropic details security efforts after three Claude cyber evaluation incidents, including a weeks-long pause on higher-risk RL and work to curb reward hacking
Ryan Gillespie / Orlando Sentinel:
Florida says it is revoking permits for Flock cameras and similar license-plate readers on state roads and no longer intends to issue permits for the cameras
About Amazon:
Amazon says the FTC's complaint over Sponsored Ads cites no evidence of consumer price increases or advertiser harm, and misunderstands how advertisers operate
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